Current Welder Fellows

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Duston R. Duffie, (Ph.D.)
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Invasive Vegetation Impacts on Herpetofauna and Mammal Populations and Communities
Elle A. Sutherland, (M.S.)
Sul Ross State University
Niche Plasticity of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Trans-Pecos, Texas
Amaris Shammaa, (M.S.)
Texas Tech University
Habitat Associations, Resource Partitioning, and Community Structure of Owls
Grace Newcomb, (M.S.)
Texas Tech University
A Distribution-Level Health Assessment of Rio Grande Wild Turkeys
Joseph M. McGovern, (Ph.D)
Texas A&M University- Kingsville
Movement Ecology of Colonial Waterbirds Along the Texas Coast

Miranda Peterson (Ph.D.)
Texas A&M University
Modeling Woody Plant Encroachment in a South Texas Grassland
Dawn R. Houston (Ph.D.)
Texas State University
Analysis of Upland and Riparian Habitats as Stopover Sites for Migratory Songbirds in Central Texas
Jonathan J. Choi (Ph.D.)
Duke University
Migratory Shorebirds & Offshore Wind Energy Development
James N Helferich (Ph.D.)
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Applying Spatially Explicit Genetic Capture-Recapture for Ocelot Density Estimation